Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-project

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
[I am *so* not subscribed. Cc me if you particularly want me to read what you have to say. Do not expect a reply.] There are 5 people listed in the -legal top 10 who are not DDs now and of those: Andrew Suffield stopped posting when he was still a DD IIRC Basically when I quit. I spent about

Retiring, and revoking gpg key

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] And is attached for convinience. [I'm not subscribed to this list] bin5dUThOfMl2.bin Description: PGP Key 0x98ACC10A. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: msgid.php

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
got to be on master too. I seem to have accidentally killed off all my copies of it, thought I still had one, oh well) -- Andrew Suffield mindx.tar.gz Description: Binary data signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: msgid.php

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:43:14PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, obviously mutt sucks, why did it put a comma there? Unencoded non-ASCII characters are invalid in mail headers though. -- Andrew Suffield signature.asc Description: Digital

Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
It's due to some recent and inconveniently timed personal events rather than *anything* within Debian, but I'm going to be reducing my involvement considerably. I'm sure people who have no insight into my life will claim otherwise; they're full of shit, if you care. If you don't already know my

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
, Andrew Suffield wrote: Curious. But I've since found a paper which observes that, for no apparent reason, the 'ch' sound in English tends to map onto an -i ending rather than the -u which most of the other 'sharp' consonants tend to get... interesting oddity. Indeed. I just thought about

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
translation. Interesting. I guess that means there's no real issue here. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
. If a word has no translation then leave it alone, don't make one up just because it sounds odd. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
what we call it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
stops - that's a pause in there, like a glottal stop) then there might be, but we didn't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
accurate, wrong or even completely untrue. Other possible descriptions include lemon sorbet, and exuberence. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
: http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ So if I were to diff the Debian archive against the Fedora one, I'd be contributing to Fedora? Cool! That'll bolster my CV a bit. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:29:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: This says you are wrong: http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ So if I were to diff the Debian archive against

Re: Status update from Create Commons workgroup?

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
of our suggestions were of the this is way too confusing to read variety rather than the this is non-free variety, and if they didn't take those, that's just fine. Actually they took most (all?) of those. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

lists.debian.org Message-ID lookup

2005-10-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
in the list archives. The index is updated roughly every five minutes and covers the entire public archive on lists.debian.org. Lists which don't have public archives aren't indexed. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
, since it's not incorporated with limits on liability. Bugger. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian UK (was Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks)

2005-09-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
to email is really quite pitiful... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
the need to talk about it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:56:32AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Andrew Suffield] On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:28:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Fortunately nobody needs to justify their decision to killfile you to anyone but themselves. Or even a decision for a group

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
and appropriateness of differing conversational styles is not a new one, nor has anything new been brought to it this week. It's only peripherally related, by subject matter. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
that this principle does not hold? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please stop the Andrew Suffield spam

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:25:52PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote: On Aug 13 0:02+0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:10:07AM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: For how long do we have to continue to wade through this flood of emails regarding the terrible state of heart

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:32:16PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:19:32AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: You're a smart guy Andrew (definitely smarter than me) Now half a dozen people are going

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
is self-defeating. [0] http://www.pledgebank.com/killfileandrew -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
every one of your claims and you gave up. Anybody else think they can prove their accusations? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:09:16PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: My response is simply this: it's lies. I challenge anybody who thinks otherwise to present evidence. So far (three days) we've had one person try, and give up after I explained every case. I think that says a lot for the accuracy

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:32:52PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: Andrew Suffield writes: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:09:16PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: My response is simply this: it's lies. I challenge anybody who thinks otherwise to present evidence. So far (three days) we've had

Re: Please stop the Andrew Suffield spam

2005-08-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:10:07AM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: For how long do we have to continue to wade through this flood of emails regarding the terrible state of heart of Andrew Suffield? Until people stop making accusations. What is the ultimate purpose of this discussion? I think

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:23:18PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:10:04PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:13:12PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: Did you not read my original mail? I

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:42:37PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Andrew Suffield wrote: Looks like a perfectly justified response to me. Which is the basic problem isn't it? Communication involves not only how responses look to oneself but how they look to other

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:19:32AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:09:16PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: There is a small group of people in this project who have spent the past several years trashing me in every forum they can. They've been putting around this notion

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
obviously I'd deliberately avoided saying who, the implication is that the reader should make up their own mind. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:07:54AM +0100, Andrew Saunders wrote: On 8/9/05, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is: think for yourself, and consider the sources of what you think you know. How accurate is it *really*? What do you find when you look at the things which actually

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
you don't agree with. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:23:00AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Andrew Suffield] I acknowledge that I occasionally write mails which can be sharp and pointy, but generally it's just in response to similarly sharp mails. It's hardly uncommon in Debian; I suspect we would reduce

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: Pledge To Killfile a person

2005-08-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:10:04PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:13:12PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: In my experience, it is sometimes necessary to get somebody's attention, and it does sometimes work. The trick is one of judgement. I stand by mine and challenge

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
it's what you wanted. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: That's probably the important case anyway. I'm not really bothered by an organisation calling itself the 'Debian Core Consortium'. I am bothered by somebody producing something that is called Debian

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
'. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
see him not wasting time on trying to fix brainlessly broken crap but instead just ignoring it and carrying on. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-05-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
to misattribute works to start with, and it has not somehow become *more* illegal by adding noise to a license. Certainly this is no excuse for making a work non-free. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Advertising on Planet Debian

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
being too restrictive as people complaining about the list not being restrictive enough. I'm pretty sick of hearing Santiago bitch about how the debian lists still don't reject all mail, does that count? It's getting *really* old. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
grapes bullshit is getting really old. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
) -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
thing to adress this. The reaction was exactly what everybody predicted would happen. What were you expecting from a hopelessly biased and braindamaged survey sent to -user? The questions were formulated to permit no other result. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:44:22AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:21:42AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:34:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: duplicated, or a blanket grant

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
that part of the text was useful to you. Why do you even have to ask? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:00:45PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:55:12AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: You wrote 'specification', I wrote 'standards documents'. I call things by their real names

Re: non-free but distributable packages and kernel firmware

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
. They have never suggested any other definition of 'Free' for other stuff, nor labelled the GFDL as 'Free' other than in its name. Attempts to extract information on this subject are met with dismissal. So goodness knows what it could mean. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
do when we give up on trying to get the FSF to fix the thing once, centrally. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Survey on FLOSS

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
discrete groups of people together, who have radically different motivations. A very strange choice of sample set. I would expect the two groups to give very different answers to several of the questions. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Debian compatibility label (Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World)

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:37:20AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Ok, and now I give the word to the 'Debian don't need no stinking marketing' counter argument :-) Avaunt, smelly marketer. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: VA Linux / Sun Wah Linux to push Debian in China/Japan

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
a lie -- Wizard's Fifth Rule, Terry Goodkind -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
we don't use material from contrib and non-free by default. Putting these drivers into main instead of contrib would not alter this, because it still wouldn't work without non-free. Any *practical* difference? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:35:59PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Andrew Suffield writes: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:51:58PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: You also need to turn this question around and ask it the other way: does having these drivers in contrib actually hurt anything

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
interested in trying? It's on my todo list, but I have a couple of binary-only drivers to tackle first. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
to turn this question around and ask it the other way: does having these drivers in contrib actually hurt anything? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
that they are neither executable code nor functional end-user documentation? No. The exception is the bits which are required by law, not license holder (and then only grudgingly, but we don't really have time to sit and wait for legislators to get a clue). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
not encourage it to continue by supporting them. Those documents should all have been released under free licenses, and they weren't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Limiting number of post from a poster per day per list

2004-12-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Limiting number of post from a poster per day per list

2004-12-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
usually forget to change the subject line when they change the subject Anything on a Debian list that looks like a single large 'thread' is invariably several dozen threads, mislabelled. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
and trademarks in order to do this. That corporation cannot and will not be the organisation currently referred to as 'Debian'. Nor could it do what Debian does. The absence of control is fundamental to our organisational structure. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:26:19PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:33:22PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: It's a thought anyway. Those involved with SPI have probably had some thoughts along these lines before, I imagine

Re: Constant revenue source (was: Google ads on debian.org)

2004-12-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
to get used to it. though, honestly, Debian seems pretty well lined up in that category too. Really can't see why you think that. hot-babe. Are you seriously suggesting that is a significant part of what Debian does? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Re: Constant revenue source (was: Google ads on debian.org)

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:08:23AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: * Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:31:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Stephen Frost wrote: Do you have any suggestion as to something that'd be a consistent revenue source for Debian

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
people think. I can't imagine what we'd use the money for, and it'd just be more bandwidth consumption for stupid users (personally, I blocked google ads a long time ago). Where would be the point? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote: Or is the whole Ubuntu thing (where I understand Mark Shuttleworth has hired a large

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:28:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Fortunately, that is not the case with Canonical. Yes it is. Fork and forget is Canonical's

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:23:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
for money right now. What we have mostly just sits in a bank account getting slowly devalued by inflation. So fund raising exercises aren't really a good idea. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:16:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: Isn't this a great idea that Debian could borrow? I think this could generate some nice publicity/income for the Debian project, I mean you've already got the domain name. Personaly I'd rather

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-11-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
money is very difficult. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using Debian logo in film

2004-11-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
on anything resembling a short timescale, even for stuff which actually matters. I can't imagine why anybody would care what you do with it, though. People stick those things all over the place. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:17:27AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: And again, I don't believe the freedom to prosecute with patent accusations is an important freedom to protect, any more than freedom to take my software

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
valid and legitimate for a free license to restrict this freedom. Same old bogus comparison; you never *had* the freedom to take the software proprietary, so you can't protect it. You *did* have the freedom to prosecute with patent accusations. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
possibly result in B being permitted to continue their branch. I suppose this is a case where A can screw B. Freedom to fork is effectively denied. This is reasonably simple to engineer just by patenting everything you can think of in the given field. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Andrew Suffield: Termination for non-compliance, in a publically redistributed work, is just a reflection of copyright law; it doesn't really change what you can and can't do. We now have a (lower) German court ruling

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
being free software. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:50:26PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:14:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: So your belief that the GPL is free is entirely based on a belief that RMS is wrong, and your belief that RMS is wrong

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:27:58PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:41:03PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-17 10:05]: The GPL does much the same. If someone distributes GPLed software without complying with section 3

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:08:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Company B cannot make counterclaims from its defensive patent portfolio, because that would invoke the termination clause and kill its modified version. Company B has no practical

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:07:28PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:08:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Why are we concerned about people who patent pieces of software while claiming that they'll only use these patents

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:04:00AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: The implication of the post I replied to was that any license that allows the removal of some set of the rights

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:14:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:04:00AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: RMS has in the past claimed that failure to abide by the terms of the GPL results in a permanent loss of those rights

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:05:29AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: The GPL does much the same. If someone distributes GPLed software without complying with section 3 (which gives you

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: internationalization

2004-08-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
server-side, but compose (Multi_key, default mapping is shifted RALT) is a feature of the X *client*. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
is in the eye of the beholder - that's about normal for humans, really. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GUADEC report

2004-07-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
are not interested in reasons why we might be wrong. I can't imagine how we could do things differently. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The Ineffectual DPL?

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:46:29PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:47:40PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Philippe Troin wrote: I always vote, probably for the same reasons I vote in my country's elections (mostly

Re: Some Comments on Sexism in #debian

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
business. That attitude was the cause of the Earth-Minbari war. The rest of the world does not share your notions of polite and respectful, for all values of your. I find yours to be pretty much the opposite. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org

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